US Restaurant Tips

Restaurant Tip Pooling & Tip-Out Distribution with FLSA tip-credit shortfall checks and IRS Form 8846 FICA tip credit

Key Features

One tip pool per shift or per business

One tip pool per shift or per business day capturing total tips collected, total credit-card tips and cash tips, with automatic reconciliation of the collected total against the sum of card and cash tips.

Gross sales for the period so percentage tip-outs

Gross sales for the period so percentage tip-outs and tip-credit math can be computed against real revenue.

By hours worked - the pool is split

By hours worked - the pool is split pro-rata to each participant's hours.

By points (role weights) - e.g

server 10, busser 4, bartender 6; the pool is split pro-rata to points x hours or flat points.

Percentage tip-out - a tipped employee tips out

Percentage tip-out - a tipped employee tips out a configured percentage of their own sales (or of the pool) to supporting roles such as bussers, runners and bartenders, with the remainder kept by the front-of-house.

For employees paid a sub-minimum cash wage with

For employees paid a sub-minimum cash wage with a claimed tip credit, the engine verifies that cash wage + tips reaches the applicable minimum wage for the hours worked and flags any shortfall the employer must make up (FLSA 3(m)).

Computes creditable tips

tips ABOVE the amount needed to bring each employee's wages up to the federal $5.15/hr Form 8846 floor, and applies the employer FICA rate (7.65%) to produce the worksheet credit per employee and per pool.

Screenshots

Allocations

Tip Roles

Tip Pools

Tip Roles

Why Choose This Module

The module ships list/form/search views, menus, action buttons, full security and a TransactionCase test suite covering the allocation arithmetic, the tip-credit shortfall flag and the Form 8846 credit computation.

Specifications

Compatible: Odoo 18.0 / 19.0
License: OPL-1
Languages: English
Author: Pokutsoft
Dependencies: hr
Support: support@pokutsoft.com

Update date: 2026-07-02